Justin Honard is a drag performer and a musician from the United states also known by the name Alaska Thunderfuck.
He took the name Alaska Thunderfuck from a sort of Cannabis because he thought it was fun.
She is also known as Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 and Alaska 5000 & Alaska Thunderfun.
He is mostly called Alaska only and he was in the 5th season of a super popular Ameican show called RuPaul’s Drag Race.
He also won the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars. He was listed as one of the 100 Most Powerful Drag Queens in the US in 2019 b the New York magazine.
Early years
Justin was born in Pennsylvania, in Erie to be exact, on March 6th in 1985. His full name is Justin Andrew Honard.
He went to the Fort LeBoeuf High School and graduated from it in 2003. He also continued his education at the University of Pittsburgh.
After finishing it he decided to move to Los Angeles so he could start his career in acting and he lives there since.
Because all of his auditions went sower and he couldn’t get the kind of role he wanted, he decided to turn to drag.
His first job as a drag performer was in the West Hollywood club called Fubar.
He also performed a lot in the Trannyshack shows in Los Angeles in California which were very well vistied and very lucrative for Alaska.
Justin performed in Palm Springs Gay Pride for the first time in 2009. It was with Jer Ber Jones and Tammie Brown.
The same year she met Sharon Needles through MySpace. He is also a drag performer and his stage name is Aaron Coady.
A year after Justin moved to Pittsburgh again so they could live together.
He also performed in the band called Haus of Haunt which eventually turned to a drag troupe. This music troupe was founded by Alaska and her former boyfriend together with Cherri Baum.
The troupe mostly performed at the Blue Moon Bar.
Justin helped his close friend and a drag queen Christeene Vale to make his debut in 2013.
Career development
Alaska competed on the fifth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and was called simply Alaska there.
Before this season she auditioned for every single one of them. On this show, Alaska won the main challenge called „Scent of a Drag Queen” connected to fragrances and also the main challenge called „Sugar Ball”.
Alaska also sang on the show. She performed „We Are the World”, „Can I Get an Amen”. This performance helped the Gay and Lesbian centers of Los Angeles.
In 2013 she entered the finale along with another drag queen called Roxxxy Andrews. The winner of the fifth season was Jinkx Monsoon.
The was year Alaska performed at the Rocky Horror Show produced by Woodlawn Theatre located in San Antonio and Texas.
She was playing the role of Dr. Frank N. Furter in it. Michelle Visage was also in this musical. He is RuPaul’s Drag Race judge and competed in the fourth season.
Alaska became a celebrity after her appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race and started touring through the country.
She was also one of the stars of a popular cabaret show known as “Red for Filth”.
She was hired to perform in a holiday show “Blue Christmas”.
Alaska even got her animated version of herself in a mobile application called the “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dragopolis”.
2014 brought her a very hardworking summer since she gained a role in a stage show called “Sex and the City”. She had the role of Charlotte and she liked it very much.
That year was highly productive for her since she started working as a spokesmodel for a company named American Apparel.
Other spokesmodels for the same company were named Willam Belli and Courtney Act.
But this year had also risen a huge controversy after Alaska apologized for a video he made. He filmed a video in which a drag queen shoots at a transgender blogger and puts a bullet in the blogger’s head.
Alaska is very productive in her music business and has many songs released in just a few years. The most popular was “Ru Girl” and “Your Makeup Is Terrible”. Her single “Nails” was also very popular.
The most popular songs were “Hieeee” and “This Is My Hair”. He often uses Hieeee in her performances as her way to say hello to the crowd.
In 2016, Alaska joined another RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars which was in its 2nd season.
Alaska donated money to Trans Kids Purple Rainbow charity due to the controversy during the show where it seemed that she was rude and overreacted to a lot of contestants.
Alaska also apologized via a video track. This has been a pretty popular trend since all YouTube stars have been having controversies during the last years, and although Alaska has been pretty peaceful, she has had her moments as well.
Her second album came out in the fall of 2016 and it was named Poundcake. She said that it was so interesting to make this album because she felt as if she finally had the artist’s freedom she was looking for!
The name Poundcake came from the Drag Race because Alaska and another contestant called Lineysha Sparx made a puppet with the same name.
In 2017 she entered the show named “Scared Famous” and she was one of the contestants of the show. She finished it in 6th place. She was extremely happy with her results, but the most important thing for her daily is to just have fun and meet new people from all around the globe, as well as glam up.
In 2018 she started hosting a podcast with Willam Belli, who is also a known drag star. It is named “Race Chaser” and it mostly holds the topic of Rupaul’s Drag Race. She loves being there.
Alaska started collaborating with Jeremy on their collaborative music album which is titled, Amethyst Journey.
She said that she would love to create more music, but lately she did not have the time because of all of her gigs and sold-out performances.
In 2019 she had joined the DragCon LA 2019 in her fight for the title of the Drag Queen of the Year.
Personal life
Alaska likes fashion very much and loves Gianni Versace and Marc Jacobs. She says that her granny is from Canada but has a French origin so he feels that he had inherited her sense of fashion since she was always dressed nicely and followed all fashion trends.
Alaska is very active on social media and has a huge fan base. She interacts with her fans gladly and doesn’t mind answering to many tricky questions.
Alaska dated another drag queen named Sheraton Needles whose real name is Aaron Coady. They met in Pittsburgh and were in a four-year-long relationship.
Justin has a brother Cory who has his web series titled “Bro’Laska”.
Quick summary
Full name: Justin Andrew Honard
Date of birth: March 6, 1985
Birthplace: Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
Age: 34
Profession: drag performer
Height: 1,85 cm
Weight: NA
Net Worth: $2,5 million